Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Papers
(The median citation count of Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience: the college years97
Greed personality trait links to negative psychopathology and underlying neural substrates73
Excitatory cerebellar transcranial direct current stimulation boosts the leverage of prior knowledge for predicting actions50
Thumbs up or thumbs down: neural processing of social feedback and links to social motivation in adolescent girls42
Reduced brain activity and functional connectivity during creative idea generation in individuals with smartphone addiction36
Intertemporal meditation regulates time perception and emotions: an exploratory fNIRS study34
Authenticity is more than self-enhancement: behavioural and neurophysiological evidence32
Targeting the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex to enhance memory control: divergent effects on social and non-social memories27
Using connectome-based models of working memory to predict emotion regulation in older adults26
Connectome-based prediction of marital quality in husbands’ processing of spousal interactions25
Identifying cortical structure markers of resilience to adversity in young people using surface-based morphometry24
Neural correlates of affective task switching and asymmetric affective task switching costs23
Neural responses to social touch with different emotional valences: an fNIRS study19
Human cerebellum and social navigation: cerebello-cerebral connectivity using dynamic causal modelling19
It’s who, not what that matters: personal relevance and early face processing19
Are older adults more deceived by false advertising? Evidence from intra- and inter-brain connectivity in the prefrontal cortex during face-to-face deceptive sales18
Mapping neural signatures of face processing in young children: an OPM-MEG study18
Scarcity mindset reduces empathic responses to others’ pain: the behavioral and neural evidence18
Genes, culture, and neural sensitivity to norm violations: a DRD4 × culture interaction study18
Structural neuroanatomy of human facial behaviors17
Trial-level ERPs predicted behavioral responses during self-referential processing in late childhood17
Value-based cognitive control moderates the relation of inflammation with depression in adolescents16
The speed of race16
The shared neural substrates of emotional mimicry and emotional contagion: an activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis and meta-analytic connectivity modeling analysis16
A missing link in affect regulation: the cerebellum16
Social goals in girls transitioning to adolescence: associations with psychopathology and brain network connectivity16
Infectious touching: Has COVID-19 changed our perceptions of social touch? A neural and behavioral study15
Group membership modulates the hold-up problem: an event-related potentials and oscillations study14
Causal roles of prefrontal and temporo-parietal theta oscillations for inequity aversion14
Ayahuasca enhances functional connectivity in the third visual pathway and mirror neuron networks: a crossover, multiple-dose functional MRI study14
The impact of teachers’ autonomy support on students’ academic performance from the perspective of hyperscanning: the mediating role of autonomy need satisfaction14
Having more friends is associated with greater sensitization to social exclusion: neural and behavioral evidence14
Potential for the medial prefrontal cortex to link mentalizing and attachment schemas14
Corticolimbic structural connectivity encapsulates real-world emotional reactivity and happiness13
Neural correlates of embodied and vibratory mechanisms associated with emotional prosody production13
Differential processing of risk and reward in delinquent and non-delinquent youth13
A comparison of a multivariate neural pattern versus amygdala response for regulation of negative emotion13
If you’re happy and you know it: neural correlates of self-evaluated psychological health and well-being13
Time-varying brain state dynamics in trait impulsivity and anxiety: An HSMM analysis of resting-state fMRI13
Social “envirotyping” the ABCD study contextualizes dissociable brain organization and diverging outcomes13
Structural brain changes in emotion recognition across the adult lifespan12
Emotional characteristics and intrinsic brain network functional connectivity among adults aged 75+12
Role of the striatum in counterfactual information seeking12
Beyond physical sensations: investigating empathy and prosocial behavior in vicarious pain responders12
The impact of affective congruence on charitable giving12
‘I am afraid you will see the stain on my soul’: Direct gaze neural processing in individuals with PTSD after moral injury recall12
Aperiodic activity masks sensorimotor mu suppression during human action observation12
The analgesic effect and neural mechanism of spicy food intake11
The role of the somatosensory system in the feeling of emotions: a neurostimulation study11
Coordinated social interactions are supported by integrated neural representations11
Brain responses to the vicarious facilitation of pain by facial expressions of pain and fear11
Brain encoding during perceived control as a prospective predictor of improvement in quality of life11
Oscillatory brain dynamics underlying affective face processing11
A beautiful face is good when we’re judged by others, a moral character is better11
Voluntary or reluctant? Social influence in charitable giving: an ERP study11
Spouse Support and Stress: Gender Differences in Neural Measures of Performance Monitoring Under Observation of a Spouse10
An ERP investigation of electrocortical responses in pain empathy from childhood through adolescence into adulthood10
Correction to: No evidence for an association of testosterone and cortisol hair concentrations with social decision-making in a large cohort of young adults10
Shifting the sociometer: opioid receptor blockade lowers self-esteem9
Interpersonal brain synchronization in social pain contexts: an fNIRS-based exploration of empathy9
Differential role of fusiform gyrus coupling in depressive and anxiety symptoms during emotion perception9
Neural divergence between individuals with and without minor depression during dynamic emotion processing: a movie-fMRI Study9
Intrinsic Network Static and Dynamic Functional Connectivity Associated with Induced Affect9
Within-person dynamics of attention to race and expression of race bias: a real-time test of the self-regulation of prejudice model9
Restricted Neural Parametric modulation of emotional arousal in autism reveals a core role for the cerebellum9
Connectome-wide brain signature during fast-food advertisement exposure predicts BMI at 2 years8
The effect of induced humility on anger and P3b responses to frustrating events8
Neural correlates of attachment in adolescents with trauma: a preliminary study on frustrative non-reward8
Diverse social media experiences and adolescents’ depressive symptoms: the moderating role of neurobiological responsivity to rejected peers8
Connectome-based predictive modeling of trait forgiveness8
Early threat experiences relate to reduced neural face discrimination in youth with emerging psychiatric symptoms: a frequency-tagging electroencephalography study7
Neural responses to instructed positive couple interaction: an fMRI study on compliment sharing7
Pathophysiological changes in incentive processing in episodic migraine: a preliminary event-related potential study7
Patterns of brain activity associated with nostalgia: a social-cognitive neuroscience perspective7
Emotion process deficits in children with ODD and their associations with different dimensions of ODD symptoms: a fNIRS study7
Developmental trajectories of sensitivity to threat in children and adolescents predict larger medial frontal theta differentiation during response inhibition7
Noninvasive ventromedial prefrontal cortex stimulation can enhance and impair affective learning from rewarding and threatening stimuli7
Specificity in the processing of a subject’s own name7
Neural mechanisms underlying the interactive exchange of facial emotional expressions7
Perspective-taking is associated with increased discriminability of affective states in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex7
Adolescents’ neural reactivity to parental criticism is associated with diminished happiness during daily interpersonal situations7
Portable EEG in groups shows increased brain coupling to strong health messages7
Altered default-mode and frontal-parietal network pattern underlie adaptiveness of emotion regulation flexibility following task-switch training7
Does pain hurt more in Spanish? The neurobiology of pain among Spanish–English bilingual adults7
Social and Affective Neuroscience: Ensuring our future6
Love in the time of Zoom: how intimacy modulates brain and behaviour synchrony in face-to-face versus video communication6
Distinct fNIRS Inter-Brain Coupling Patterns for Cooperation versus Competition in a Tennis Game6
Increased default mode network activation in depression and social anxiety during upward social comparison6
Is individual attentional bias positive or negative? It depends on trait anxiety6
Altered neural response to social awkwardness in schizophrenia spectrum disorders6
Do stress hormones influence choice? A systematic review of pharmacological interventions on the HPA axis and/or SAM system6
Gratitude enhances widespread dynamic cooperation and inter-brain synchronization in females6
Prediction Strength Shapes Representations of Social Judgments and Bodily Responses to Prediction Violations6
Birthing parents’ neural response to infant cry: moderating effects of oxytocin and perceived childhood care6
Cognitive reappraisal of food craving and emotions: a coordinate-based meta-analysis of fMRI studies6
Androstadienone modulates human aggression in a sex-dependent manner6
Nonconscious processing of fearful and neutral faces modulates the N1706
Neural bases of social facilitation and inhibition: how peer presence affects elementary eye movements6
Molecular profiles in amygdala relevant to the relief of chronic unpredicted mild stress-induced depression by periodic meeting confidantes5
Frontocortical activity and emotional experience in the context of daily life events5
Curiosity and mesolimbic functional connectivity drive information seeking in real life5
Envisioning translational hyperscanning: how applied neuroscience might improve family-centered care5
What’s the harm? Examining police contact and amygdala reactivity among black adolescents5
Two different mirror neuron pathways for social and non-social actions? A meta-analysis of fMRI studies5
Covert neural and autonomic signatures of shared perception5
The impact of stimulus format and presentation order on social working memory updating5
The default mode network and rumination in individuals at risk for depression5
Gain/loss framing moderates the VMPFC’s response to persuasive messages when behaviors have personal outcomes5
The longitudinal role of family conflict and neural reward sensitivity in youth’s internalizing symptoms5
The social neuroscience of eating: an introduction to the special issue5
Brain connectivity during social exclusion differs depending on the closeness within a triad among older adults living in a village5
Shared effects of the opioid antagonist naltrexone on first-hand and empathic pain5
Developmental changes in brain function linked with addiction-like social media use two years later5
TMS disruption of the lateral prefrontal cortex increases neural activity in the default mode network when naming facial expressions5
Neural encoding of novel social networks: evidence that perceivers prioritize others’ centrality5
Pupil dilation reflects the social and motion content of faces5
Empathy enhances decoding accuracy of human neurophysiological responses to emotional facial expressions of humans and dogs5
Invoking self-related and social thoughts impacts online information sharing5
Bidirectional understanding and cooperation: interbrain neural synchronization during social navigation5
Mother–child neural synchronization is time linked to mother–child positive affective state matching5
Correction to: Distinct neural dynamics in joint versus side-by-side actions: insights from dual EEG5
Early adolescent perceived friendship quality aids affective and neural responses to social inclusion and exclusion in young adults with and without adverse childhood experiences5
Priority of spontaneous gender categorization of same-sex faces in young adults4
Can the neural representation of physical pain predict empathy for pain in others?4
Taking an embodied avatar’s perspective modulates the temporal dynamics of vicarious pain and pleasure: a virtual reality and EEG study4
Striatal–hippocampal functional connectivity contributes to real-life positive anticipatory experiences and subjective well-being4
Generalized expectancy of threat in threatening compared to safe contexts4
Trajectories of interbrain synchrony during teamwork: links with team composition and performance4
Corticostriatal responses to social reward are linked to trait reward sensitivity and subclinical substance use in young adults4
Multidimensional neural representations of social features during movie viewing4
Tracking politically motivated reasoning in the brain: the role of mentalizing, value-encoding, and error detection networks4
Graph analysis of guilt processing network highlights links with subclinical anxiety and self-blame4
Group empathy for pain is stronger than individual empathy for pain in the auditory modality4
Learning from in-group and out-group models induces separative effects on human mate copying4
A simple alternative to nondeceptive placebos for reducing emotional distress: encouragement4
Differential effects of social feedback valence and self-relevance on brain responses and behaviour4
The influence of gender stereotypical primes on the neural processing of words and faces4
The SocialVidStim: a video database of positive and negative social evaluation stimuli for use in social cognitive neuroscience paradigms4
Modulatory role of the right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex in crowd emotional perception following social exclusion4
More than labels: neural representations of emotion words are widely distributed across the brain4
Pain modulates brain potentials and behavioral responses to unfairness4
Phase-synchronized brain connectivity during emotion regulation: attachment as a moderator4
Scarcity mindset facilitates empathy for social pain and prosocial intention: behavioral and neural evidences4
Cultural variation in neural responses to social but not monetary reward outcomes4
No changes in triple network engagement following (combined) noradrenergic and glucocorticoid stimulation in healthy men4
How self-disclosure of negative experiences shapes prosociality?4
Oxytocin differentially modulates the early neural responses to faces and non-social stimuli4
Mothers’ and fathers’ neural responses toward gender-stereotype violations by their own children4
RESTING-STATE NETWORKS IN SCHOOL-AGED VERY PRETERM CHILDREN: LINKS WITH COGNITION AND THEORY OF MIND4
Neural processes of inhibitory control in American Indian peoples are associated with reduced mental health problems4
Oxytocin’s role in dual pathways of dishonesty: distinguishing conformity-driven and self-interest-driven behaviours4
Distinct neural dynamics in joint versus side-by-side actions: insights from dual EEG3
Reward system atrophy relates to heightened feelings of physical closeness in Alzheimer’s disease3
Social support and depressive symptoms: the role of childhood maltreatment and brain activity in a moderated mediation model3
Event-related brain activity in response to partners’ speech in natural conversation3
Contributions of fundamental frequency and timbre to vocal emotion perception and their electrophysiological correlates3
Differentiating neural sensitivity and bias during face-emotion processing in youth: a computational approach3
Comparison of face attention bias in adults with ASD, ADHD, or comorbid ADHD+ASD3
Correction to: A 7-Tesla MRI study of the periaqueductal gray: resting state and task activation under threat3
Differences in risk appraisal and neural activity in adolescents with a history of misconduct3
Generalizable Neural Models of Emotional Engagement and Disengagement3
A normative model of brain responses to social scenarios reflects the maturity of children and adolescents’ social–emotional abilities3
Reduced GM–WM concentration inside the Default Mode Network in individuals with high emotional intelligence and low anxiety: a data fusion mCCA+jICA approach3
Baseline physical activity moderates brain–behaviour relationships in response to framed health messages3
Effects of Oxytocin on Agency in Anxiously Attached Individuals, a Replication and Extension3
Changes in interpersonal distance modulate social attention engagement: evidence from EEG alpha band suppression3
An investigation of the interaction of trait repetitive negative thinking and neuroticism on brain activity during negative self-referential processing: a cross-sectional fMRI study3
Adolescents’ neural responses to their parents’ emotions: associations with emotion regulation, internalizing symptoms, and substance use3
Correction to: Unveiling the neural dynamics of the theory of mind: a fMRI study on belief processing phases3
Proximity within adolescent peer networks predicts neural similarity during affective experience3
Partner similarity and social cognitive traits predict social interaction success among strangers3
Learn How to Be Effective: Neural and Computational Insights into Charity Efficiency Learning3
Segregation of Three Resting-State Brain Networks Predicts Reappraisal Success Across The Lifespan3
An Examination of the Impact of Online Feedback and Social Distance on the Implicit Self-Identity of Adolescents: Behavioral and ERP Evidence3
Fear in the mind’s eye: the neural correlates of differential fear acquisition to imagined conditioned stimuli3
Loneliness and brain rhythmic activity in resting state: an exploratory report3
From Lab to Concert Hall: Effects of Live Performance on Neural-Acoustic Phase-Locking and Engagement3
Cerebellar contribution to emotion regulation and its association with medial frontal GABA level3
Social pain is associated with altered developmental trajectories of connectivity among the triple network model of psychopathology3
Attention to the other’s body sensations modulates the ventromedial prefrontal cortex3
Atypical attentional network dynamics in adolescent depression during emotional movie viewing3
Investigating the role of executive function in brain responses to infant crying among new parents3
Unpacking reappraisal: a systematic review of fMRI studies of distancing and reinterpretation3
Openness to Experience is associated with neural and performance measures of memory in older adults3
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